Riley County News

Attorney General Steve Six announced Monday that 22-year-old Luis Antonio Aguirre had been charged with capital murder in Riley County in the slayings of an 18-year-old woman and her son, whom authorities think was 13 months old when he died.

A Lawrence man was flown to a Topeka hospital on Saturday after shooting himself at a Manhattan residence, police said.

Fire at a home at 112 Pride Drive, just off of K-177, disrupted traffic for a while on the highway, reducing it to one lane and also caused significant damage to the single family home.

The man accused of killing a mother and child and burying their bodies in a Riley County field is headed back to Kansas.

A March jury trial has been set in a Riley County involuntary manslaughter case.

Riley County police are currently investigating a rape that was reported to them Monday, but that allegedly occurred on August 22nd and 23rd.

The line wound up a hill and down the sidewalk, those at the end so far back, they couldn't see the doors of the Riley County Health Agency.

New details are emerging in the investigation surrounding the discovery of two dead bodies in Riley County.

Bradley Schoen, director of the Riley County Police Department, said Monday morning authorities had arrested a man in connection with the slayings of an 18-year-old woman and her 15-month-old son in Riley County.

Area governmental leaders had a course on tax increment finance Monday, with Manhattan Assistant City Manager Jason Hilgers presenting a power point on the subject during the monthly intergovernmental meeting.

Riley County Commissioner Mike Kearns and Director of Administrative Services Clancy HolemanA held a telephone conference with Leavenworth County Commission concerning the Military Installation Encroachment Bill.

The remains of two bodies were found just east of Ogden in Riley County. Autopsy results on the human remains found in Riley County Sunday afteroon could come as soon as Thursday.

Riley County courts already have felt the squeeze from a shortage of state revenue.

Riley County officials say a hunter discovered the burial site near the 63-hundred block of south 32nd Street.

A 34-year-old Manhattan man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on convictions of aggravated sexual battery, aggravated battery, and aggravated intimidation of a victim.

There is now an official recall petition for Ogden Mayor Jimmy Bond. County Clerk Rich Vargo spoke with Riley County Commissioners on Thursday.

The Riley County Police Department, Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were involved in a joint operation Thursday that led to the arrest of Ismael Cantu-Santiago, of Manhattan,Felix Damien-Simon, of Lawrence, and Raul Guzman-Martinez, of Manhattan.

A 17-year-old Lehigh girl who went missing earlier this week was found safe in northeast Kansas on Thursday after a man believed to have abducted her dropped her off at a bank, authorities said.

A Kansas State University student who recently began taking long-term treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis disease has been admitted to Mercy Regional Health Center for mandated treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis.

An Amber Alert was issued Wednesday evening for 17-year-old Tara Renee Simhiser, of Marion County.